Hell Frozen Over (2000)

Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for the 2000 Walker Art Center exhibition Let's Entertain, this short film employs a range of strategies to approach the idea of nothingness, emptiness, and vacuity, with an eye to how these notions relate to contemporary mass-cultural entertainment. Juxtaposing "documentary" takes on a fashion shoot with footage of semiologist Sylvère Lotringer giving an impromptu lecture on Mallarmé on a frozen lake, Hell Frozen Over maintains an ambiguous stance from which to both critique and celebrate the power of surface.

Released Feb. 12, 2000 19 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.poetry, tmdb.fashion, tmdb.abstract

Production Companies: The Bohen Foundation, The Bernadette Corporation

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: English